Business Description

Parker Hannifin Corp was incorporated in Ohio in 1938. The Company is a diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies and systems, providing precision engineered solutions for mobile, industrial and aerospace markets. The Company's manufacturing, service, sales, distribution and administrative facilities are located in 40 states within the United States and in 49 other countries. The Company markets its products through direct-sales employees, independent distributors and sales representatives. Its products are supplied to approximately 450,000 customers in virtually every significant manufacturing, transportation and processing industry. The Company's products are marketed to two segments Diversified Industrial Segment that includes Automation Group, Engineered Materials Group, Filtration Group, Fluid Connectors Group, Hydraulics Group & Instrumentation Group and Aerospace Systems Segment that include commercial and military aerospace markets to both original equipment manufacturers and to end users for spares, maintenance, repair and overhaul. The Company's competitors include U.S. and non-U.S. companies. In the Diversified Industrial Segment, the Company competes with Bosch Rexroth AG, Danfoss A/S, Donaldson Company, Inc., Eaton Corporation plc, Emerson Climate Technologies, Emerson/ASCO, Festo AG, Freudenberg-NOK, IMI/Norgren, Pall Corporation, SMC Corporation, Swagelok Company, and Trelleborg AB. In the Aerospace Systems Segment, the Company competes with Eaton Corporation plc, Honeywell International, Inc., Moog Inc., Triumph Group, Inc., UTC Aerospace Systems, Woodward, Inc. and Zodiac Aerospace SA.

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